Hi there, folks. I am currently migrating some forum to Discourse. I have zero experience with RoR development, so I have few questions about Discourse and its infrastructure. First of all, I’m planning to use the Discourse forum as-is, without custom plugins or source code modifications. I, how…

I wrote a couple discourse importers before I knew ruby, so that’s good news. Just start with an importer that has the features you want and change the database queries, basically. The importers have code to let you run them against a newer database, skipping the data imported already. Typically yo…

Thanks, Jay. I think there is a misunderstanding: I already have all the data required on the new Discourse-based forum. I am just looking for the proper way to keep migrations I will write in the future in a separate repo and to apply them when rebuilding the Docker container with the forum.

@pfaffman , I do not modify Discourse. I do not wish to manually apply changes via the administration panel both on the production and the staging servers, but to use migrations for it. Example use-case: I need to modify contents of the default email templates. Here is the preferred flow: Write …

Migrations refers to changes in the database structure. You’re not talking about pushing source code changes, which is what git is for. Changing mail templates, and key much everything else not involving a custom plugin is done via the web interface and can’t really hurt anything, so it’s not the k…

@pfaffman although it’s not a very common approach, one can use database migrations not only for schema changes but for content editing as well. I’m a big fan of that, using ansible for almost everything, so I can script and automate instead of click my way through a web interface. @mschekotov for …

[imagem] RGJ: . I’m a big fan of that, using ansible for almost everything, so I can script and automate instead of click my way through a web interface. OOOOh! That’s the kind of spend-a-hundred-hours-to-save-ten-minutes kind of thing that I love. I need to revisit Ansible. It’s not immedia…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) Fevereiro 21, 2018, 1:25pm 4

What migrations? Did you modify discourse? I guess I will don’t understand your question.

If you’ve modified discourse it should be in a plugin and it should just work.

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